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Representatives Gregory Meeks, Ed Towns, and Yvette Clarke all called Palin a racist.
    Apparently, in addition to raising Obama's fraternizing with a white domestic terrorist, Palin had used the racist code words “Joe Six-Pack” and “Hockey Mom.” If those were code words, they were extremely subtle. In fact, I think the NAACP would give you a pass on “Joe Six-Pack” and “Hockey Mom.”
    But Representative Clarke demanded to know “Who exactly is Joe Six-Pack and who are these hockey moms?” The same people who said they couldn't have a conversation that didn't include the phrase “lipstick on a pig” now claimed they had never heard the expression “Joe Six-Pack.” Clarke continued, “Is that supposed to be terminology that is of common ground to all Americans? I don't find that. It leaves a lot of people out.” 42 Many had hoped that the nomination of the first black man for president would end the playing of the pinot noir card, but it was not to be.
    It's a symbiotic relationship the Democrats and the media have,with the media sometimes concocting their own rogue attacks on Republicans and sometimes getting their arguments directly from Democratic talking points. Take the
New York Times's
Katherine Q. Seelye, for example.
    On October 15, 2008, the Obama campaign's internal predebate talking points were inadvertently released to the media. They said:
    This is John McCain's last chance to turn this race around and somehow convince the American people that his erratic response to this economic crisis doesn't disqualify him from being president.
    Just this weekend, John McCain vowed to “whip Obama's you-know-what” at the debate, and he's indicated that he'll be bringing up Bill Ayers to try to distract voters.
    So we know that Senator McCain will come ready to attack Barack Obama and bring his dishonorable campaign tactics to the debate stage.
    John McCain has been erratic and unsteady since this crisis began, staggering from position to position and trying to change the subject away from the economy by launching false character attacks. 43
    Katharine Q. Seelye's October 15, 2008,
New York Times
article, “What to Watch for During the Final Debate,” included the following points in her news analysis—observations that were uncannily similar to the Obama campaign's talking points:
    â€œTonight's debate provides Senator John McCain with his last, best hope of reversing the tide that appears to be running against him.”
    â€œMr. McCain has already vowed to ‘whip’ Mr. Obama's ‘you-know-what’ tonight. At the same time, watch to see if Mr. McCain raises the matter of Mr. Obama's past association with William Ayers, the former 1960s radical.”
    â€œWatch for the degree to which Mr. McCain dials back his attacks, as he has on the campaign trail.”
    â€œHis behavior during the current crisis—from announcing a brief suspension of his campaign to offering a plan during the last debate for buying up bad mortgages—appeared to have the effect of undermining voter confidence and driving away independents.”
    One would hope that professional journalists wouldn't typically reprint Democratic talking points as news. More often, what professional journalists do is manufacture their own mock outrages against Republicans and then hand-deliver the fake scandal to the Democrats, who act dutifully shocked.
    According to his devoted media claque, Obambi was a victim of “guilt by association” whenever anyone mentioned his two-decade association with a racist preacher or his ties to an unrepentant domestic terrorist. Being offended by “guilt by association” was another new posture for liberals, who heretofore had specialized in making guilt-by-association charges.
    Republican politicians who had given speeches to a conservative group, the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), were branded